Bart Jan Spruyt

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Full Name	Bart Jan Spruyt
Occupation	Columnist
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1964(1964-01-29)
Age	60
Country	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Birth City	Ridderkerk
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bart Jan Spruyt Biography

Bart Jan Spruyt is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on January 29, 1964 in Ridderkerk, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Dr. Bastian Jan “Bart Jan” Spruyt (born 29 January 1964 in Ridderkerk) is a Dutch journalist, historian, and conservative journalist.

In 2004, Dutch politician Geert Wilders founded an ultra-conservative party in 2004 Spruyt backed the move in the hope that it would inspire a new movement based by American conservatism. From January to August of 2006, Spruyt consulted Wilders on his political strategy. Then, during August Spruyt announced that he was dissatisfied with the progress of the fledgling Wilders party and decided not to be a candidate for parliamentary office for the Wilders slate. Spruyt believed Wilders could have established a broad conservative party along with other politicians such as Marco Pastors (of Leefbaar Rotterdam) and Joost Eerdmans (of the LPF). However, Wilders was not willing to join forces, and the Dutch right split and Spruyt chose to end his political career after just six months. Spruyt has since come under fire for criticizing Wilders for being too radical.

Since September 2009, Spruyt has been teaching civics and history at Wartburg College, location Guido de Brès in Rotterdam.

One of the most prominent intellectual conservatives Spruyt played a key role in the founding of the Edmund Burke Foundation, the Dutch conservative group during the second quarter of 2000. Along with the conservative militant Joshua Livestro, Spruyt became the director of the foundation after the Foundation began to establish the offices of its own at The Hague. Livestro was soon to leave The Foundation and Spruyt served as the director for the next three years. In the time he was managing director, he was openly seeking to imitate the American conservative movement, taking as his models the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute as his most exemplary models. Under his direction the Foundation was able to make the legacy of conservative politicians such as Ronald Reagan relevant to the Dutch political environment. To achieve this Burke Foundation advocated for Burke Foundation called for significant budget cuts, tax reductions (especially for income taxes) and the implementation of flat taxes as well as health care reform along with welfare reform. The Foundation also supported the Bush administration’s anti-terrorist campaign, called for greater defense spending, and stronger links between the United States and Europe and played a significant part during its involvement in the Dutch protest against The European Constitution in June 2005. The Foundation also offered a more philosophical and a student-centric program. In the latter part in 2004 as well as 2005 Spruyt along with other prominent Dutch intellectuals, was required to engage private security companies in light of the political situation in the Netherlands after The murder of Theo van Gogh.

Bart Jan Spruyt Net Worth

Bart Jan Spruyt is one of the richest Columnist from Kingdom of the Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bart Jan Spruyt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Spruyt was born in Rotterdam and then went on to study theology, history, and law at Utrecht University and Leiden University. He is a practicing Christian who belongs to the Hersteld Hervormde Kerk denomination (Restored Reformed Church). Spruyt earned his M.A. in Renaissance and Reformation History in 1990 at Utrecht and was awarded the most prestigious distinction. Spruyt was an undergraduate students in the department of Renaissance and Reformation History at Leiden University from February 1991 until February 1994. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in February 1996 for a dissertation in English entitled ‘Cornelius H. Hoen (Honius) along with Honius’s Epistle regarding the Eucharist (1525) Medieval Heresy Erasmian Humanism as well as Reformation within the Early Sixteenth-Century Low Countries’ The dissertation was directed by prof. Posthumus Meyjes (Leiden) and the late Prof. Heiko A. Oberman (Arizona). A book version of the dissertation was released at the end of 2006 . It was published by E. J. Brill in their series ‘Studies on Medieval and Reformation traditions in the fields of History, Culture Religion, and Ideas’. Spruyt’s scholarly work was published in journals such including Reformatorica, the Dutch Review of Church History, Sixteenth Century Journal, Wolfenbutteler Renaissance Mitteilungen, English Historical Review, Quaerendo, and Reformatorica. He is now an associate professor of the Free University of Amsterdam, where he teaches ecclesiastical historians.

From 1994 to 2002 , Spruyt was a journalist at his newspaper, the Reformatorisch Dagblad, the sixth largest Dutch daily newspaper with a mostly Protestant readers and a distinctly Calvinist editor’s line. He was a reporter for Dutch politics as well as international desk. His last job was between 2000 and 2002 as the chief editor of politics and commentator for the newspaper. He worked from The Hague. In the second quarter of the year 2006, he resumed his journalistic work.

After leaving politics, Spruyt entered a life as an independent consultant, journalist, teacher, writer and speaker. Spruyt continues to contribute widely to Dutch magazines and newspapers on a broad array of topics. In April 2006 Spruyt delivered the second Roosevelt Study Centre Lecture in Transatlantic Relations in Middelburg on the topic “The Defence of the West: Neoconservatism and the continuing need for new Churchills.” He blogs at Bart J. Spruyt Blog. He regularly writes for such publications as HP De Tijd and Binnenlands Bestuur. In 2008, he was named the successor of Pim Fortuyn as the columnist for a prominent Dutch weekly news magazine, Elsevier. He continues to be chairman of the Edmund Burke Stichting.

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Bart Ranked on the list of most popular Columnist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands. Bart Jan Spruyt celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.